The WCRP Observation and Assimilation Panel (WOAP)

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WCRP places very high priority on obtaining and using the highest possible quality observations (including re-analysis of satellite data and model-based re-analysis of all types of observations) for climate research.

For the Strategic Framework to be successsful, the coordinated collection and reanalysis of climate observations is required to describe the structure and variability of the climate system, and to generate dynamically-balanced and internally-consistent states of the coupled climate system for the numerical prediction of climate.The new observational data, particularly those from the new generation of satellites, will be exploited to the maximum possible extent in pursuit of the aims and objectives of WCRP and in particular to determine what can be predicted and how it can be done.

The WCRP Observation and Assimilation Panel reports to the Joint Scientific Committee (JSC).

List of members of the WOAP Team